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For the past half century, the Indonesian military has depicted the 1965-66 killings, which resulted in the murder of approximately one million unarmed civilians, as the outcome of a spontaneous upris
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"Confucian Encounters with "Religion"" is a thoughtful, well-researched, and much needed account of a controversial subject. Untold millions of Chinese both on native soil and in diaspora globally hav
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